Evaluating the Performance of Lightweight Ciphers in Constrained Environments—The Case of Saturnin
The use of lightweight cryptographic algorithms is essential for addressing security in highly constrained environments such as the Internet of Things. In this paper, the performance of lightweight block ciphers in such highly constrained environments is studied. More precisely, focusing—as a case s...
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| description | The use of lightweight cryptographic algorithms is essential for addressing security in highly constrained environments such as the Internet of Things. In this paper, the performance of lightweight block ciphers in such highly constrained environments is studied. More precisely, focusing—as a case study—on an important family of lightweight ciphers called “Saturnin”, which has been evaluated as a candidate for standardization in the relative ongoing NIST’s competition, we analyze its efficiency in case that it is implemented in a specific resource-constrained environment. To evaluate the results, a comparative study with the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is performed, through an appropriate experimental environment. Our results illustrate that significant gain in performance can be achieved, since Saturnin—whose design is inspired by the design of AES—can be almost two times faster than AES in such restricted environments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c702d7df48ee404cb70b242d58479f152023-11-30T22:21:59ZengMDPI AGSignals2624-61202022-02-0131869410.3390/signals3010007Evaluating the Performance of Lightweight Ciphers in Constrained Environments—The Case of SaturninPanagiotis Podimatas0Konstantinos Limniotis1School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, Latsia, Nicosia 2220, CyprusSchool of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, Latsia, Nicosia 2220, CyprusThe use of lightweight cryptographic algorithms is essential for addressing security in highly constrained environments such as the Internet of Things. In this paper, the performance of lightweight block ciphers in such highly constrained environments is studied. More precisely, focusing—as a case study—on an important family of lightweight ciphers called “Saturnin”, which has been evaluated as a candidate for standardization in the relative ongoing NIST’s competition, we analyze its efficiency in case that it is implemented in a specific resource-constrained environment. To evaluate the results, a comparative study with the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is performed, through an appropriate experimental environment. Our results illustrate that significant gain in performance can be achieved, since Saturnin—whose design is inspired by the design of AES—can be almost two times faster than AES in such restricted environments.https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6120/3/1/7lightweight cryptographyperformanceSaturnin |
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| title | Evaluating the Performance of Lightweight Ciphers in Constrained Environments—The Case of Saturnin |
| title_full | Evaluating the Performance of Lightweight Ciphers in Constrained Environments—The Case of Saturnin |
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| title_short | Evaluating the Performance of Lightweight Ciphers in Constrained Environments—The Case of Saturnin |
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